The Face Pullers - Unused Photos - "Sewing Department, Industrial School, St. Albert"
Alternate Title
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Charles W. Mathers (photographer)
Description
Black and White photograph of a room of young Indigenous women in European clothes. Some are seated at sewing machines, and others sit on chairs sewing by hand. Two nuns oversee the activity in the background.
Unused photograph from the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.